Wedding Cards - Just Johanna Style

Wanted to take out my Just Johanna stamps a few days ago to play with them a little more...This cake image has always made me think of a wedding cake so I thought I'd use the stamp to create a few wedding themed cards. Here are the two I came up with!

Both cards are very easy designs and both have the image stamped and embossed on vellum. The top card also includes my favorite swirly image from one my new SU! stamp sets in the background, which is embossed in silver. The cake image is embossed in white, cut out, and adhered with stampin' dimensionals. I like that you can see the swirls through the cake. :-) I then added a chipboard circle to the top. The circle has been covered with white cardstock, the edges embossed with silver, and a "Mr. & Mrs." sentiment, which didn't photograph that well, added to the circle. A bit of silver cording and this baby was done!

The second card was even easier as I simply stamped and embossed, in silver, the cake image, and adhered it with silver eyelets. The "cherish" sentiment was stamped on a plain oval and embossed.

Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies:
Cake image by Just Johanna
Swirl and sentiment images, ink, chipboard, and cord by Stampin' Up!

WOW!!

Julie over at Stampin' with Julie nominated me! Thank you so much Julie, I'm humbled. I started my blog to simply share and "get to know" others out there in the stamping world. Not only have I been able to do that but some wonderful friendships have been created and for that I am truly blessed.

I'm supposed to nominate five other stampers out there and picking only five will be difficult. There are so many of you talented girlies!! :-) Here are my picks (of those that haven't already been nomiated!):

1) Stamping Mathilda
2) Artful Ramblings
3) Melissa Goodsell
4) Weekend Stamper, Happy Emilia
5) Scripture by Design

There are so many more....check out the links on the right hand side of my blog for more talented artists!

More cards to follow over the weekend so check back in!

Goin' Round in Circles

A link from Allison's blog (Stampin' When I Can) sent me to a site I've never visited, Card Positioning Systems, where they post layout challenges. The challenge for this week was to use circles! I thought the layout was different and fun so I decided to play along! Some folks, who participated in the challenge, did use just circles as the entire card but since the patterened paper I wanted to use was a light weight I decided to go with a square background of a heavier cardstock.

The card is 5" x 5" and the background color is one of the new SU! In Colors, River Rock. The rest of the paper is from my giant book of ProvoCraft paper. The corners are again covered using my favorite corner covering technique (using a scalloped heart punch) and adhered with snazzy new crystal brads from SU!. The middle flower and three dots have been sponged with River Rock ink and coated with one coast of glassy glaze embossing powder, giving it more of a rough bumpy surface vs. a high gloss smooth finish.

Try out a circle card today and post a link back to your photo...I'd love to see what you create!

Happy Friday!

Happy Hedgehog

I recently received a package from Eclectic Paperie (some amazing Crate Paper! I'll share a project using that paper later this week) and the sweet owners of the store, Daisy and Joy, included two stamped images for me to use on future projects! How fab is that??

This card took me outside of my comfort zone, which may seem odd since it's a fairly simple card. But I don't usually use this type of cartoony image...never seem to know what to do with them...and I don't usually use images that require coloring. (Although with all the "Copic Marker" discussion going on lately, I think I'm going to have to jump on the coloring bandwagon!) I decided to be even more daring and use bright colors, another item I don' t typically use in my projects.

The image is colored with SU! markers, and I did try to do a bit of layering and shading, which it seems can be accomplished (although probably not as easily as using a high end marker) if you start with the lightest shade, which you let dry before applying a darker shade. I didn't do a lot of shading as I didn't want to completely ruin my piece, but I had a fun time experimenting with these piece. You can see the shading on the hedgehog better on this close up shot:
I read on Michelle's site (Mish Mash) a few days ago about drawing a line to resemble the ground on images that seem like they need to "sit" on something, rather than them floating in space. This tip certainly helped with this card! I also sponged on some green and blue ink to represent the grass and sky. The polka dots on the boot were created with the end of a paint brush and I added just a hit of "dirt" on the bottom of the boot. Since I had decided to go with a birthday sentiment, I added the tiny hat image from the same "Small Sayings" SU! stamp set to my hedgehog's head.

Once my image was complete I mounted it on the blue patterend paper, which came from an SU! Stampin' Kit. I toyed with adding more paper, etc. to the background but decided that the blue paper looked really nice on **gasp** plain white paper! I simply added the narrow yellow trim around the blue paper, which are stickers from the same Stampin' Kit.

Well for such a simple card, this was quite a long explanation!! Enjoy and happy creating!

Summer Fun

I'm participating in a scrapbooking shoebox swap next week and this is the project I'm bringing for my swap. It's not easy for me to keep the design simple enough for folks to create in a short amount of time. I think that everyone is going to be cranky that they need to cut out all the letters for the title! **giggle**

The layout for both pages started from sketches I found on Splitcoast but both designs were significantly altered by the time I finished. Outside of the time required to cut out the letters, everything else was fairly straight-forward and simple. I do actually plan on adding pictures to these pages, just haven't gotten around to it yet! Below are close up photos of the two individual pages.

Hope everyone has a safe and cool summer week...and happy creating!

Supplies:
All supplies by Stampin' Up!

I've Been Tagged!

Tracy over at Stampingly Creative Art tagged me to share seven things about myself. Humm...I'm not sure there's a lot of interesting info to share but how about some obscure and silly things?

1. I have an unrealistic fear of bears. Hey, I'm from NY, we don't have any wild life there....well none that walk on four legs! Now I'm in the country (country for me) and there are bears in our state. I've heard the stories about them being found wandering down a street or in a backyard (there was actually one spotted just down the street from us last year) and I don't want anything to do with them! LOL! This is also why you'll never find me hiking or camping without some sort of firearm! ha ha ha
2. About 10 years ago I was seriously bitten by a friend's 150 pd. Bullmastif dog. It was nasty...the dog was nasty! I'm now very cautious about large dogs, which I never was before. Maybe that explains my bear fear...I don't want to get bitten by any animal larger than a mosquito!
3. I took three years of French in high school and all I can say now in French is, "do you speak French?" :-)
4. I played the flute throughout junior high and high school and was in the marching and concert bands. Still have the flute and pull it out every now and then but, like French, I don't remember much!
5. I adore Seinfeld....Have most of the shows on tape and confess that I use lines from the show on a regular basis!
6. I used to sing in a church choir and was once even in a concert where I managed to completely forget the words to my big solo!! LOL!
7. I was in a commerical when I was about 10. My Mom worked for an eye doctor that wanted to produce a commercial promoting his practice. Since my Mom and I both had glasses from his office we were filmed walking to the car from the house. I actually saw it on TV once. It was on late at night, during the "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" show. (How's that for aging myelf! Tell me if you remember that show!!)

That's it! I won't tag anyone since it seems most folks have done this already but if you haven't and want to share, please do, and leave me a comment with a link back to your blog! Enjoy the weekend!!

Cherished Memories

Recently stumbled across a fantastic deal on a huge pack of paper at my local crafting superstore...$20.00 for an enormous pack of 12x12 patterned paper, stickers, die cut tags and embellishments, and double sided solid paper. All morning I kept eyeing the new pack of paper, just waiting for a free moment to tear open the pack! My moment finally arrived this afternoon!As I was searching for some supplies I came across this old photo. Thought the photo married with the paper would be a good project for today. Precious moments....napping with a newborn...

This was a simple 6x6 layout, using SU!'s Always Artichoke as a base for the page. No stamping on this page either! I simply used the patterned paper found in my new jumbo paper pack, which BTW, consists of six different color/pattern families that all coordinate, to add a few layers. The polka dot strip and letters are stickers, which were also included with the paper pack. What fun! The large bracket is from a selection of SU! chipboard that I covered with striped paper. Just added a few of those fancy fun photo corners, secured by brads, on the other side of the page to balance the bracket. Of course I aged the edge of everything because that is absolutely my favorite technique!

Enjoy the weekend!!

Supplies:
Always Artichoke and Sahara Sand cardstock, chipboard, and brads by Stampin' Up!
All patterend paper and letter stickers by Provo Craft